Salzburg Festival 2022: Die Zauberflöte

Synopsis

Salzburg stands for Mozart and hardly any work stands for Mozart as much as his Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), the most famous opera of all. Therefore, a staging of Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival is always something special. Director Lydia Steier in her revised version of her Salzburg production, now placed at the Haus für Mozart, introduces a grandfather as a narrator to read Die Zauberflöte as a bedtime story to his three grandchildren. In this way, the rich fantasy of the work breaks into the strict household of an upper middle-class family, in which reverie has little place, and takes the three boys right into the middle of the action. As the Three Boys, they plunge into a fairy-tale and dream world in whose surreal enlargements the boys’ everyday lives appear again and again. With a childlike gaze, they accompany and guide the protagonists through their destinies. “Regula Mühlemann is a beautiful-sounding Pamina, Michael Nagl a charming, creamy Papageno, and Tareq Nazmi as bass-strong Sarastro turns out to be a stroke of luck.” (Oberösterreichische Nachrichten)

Additional Info

• No: A04050214
• Composer: W.A. Mozart
• Conductor: Joana Mallwitz
• Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
• Artists: Tareq Nazmi, Mauro Peter, Brenda Rae, Regula Mühlemann, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
• Production year: 2022
• Run time: 02:25:00
• Director: Stage Director: Lydia Steier
• Producers: Servus TV, UNITEL, Wiener Philharmoniker, Salzburg Festival
• Format: 4K